My son has been admitted to Rhodes College in Memphis, Columbia College in Chicago, Loyola in Chicago, Montevallo in Birmingham and Case Western Reserve in Cleveland.
He wants to major in performance (acting, musicals but not musical theatre major) but he is academically very strong and needs great professors in English, Psych, foreign language, history, etc.
Which would you choose and why? Which would you eliminate from consideration and why?
TIA,
Mom of stage kid
Correction: accepted, not admitted
Is he going for a BFA?
I only know about the Chicago schools but Loyola is considerably stronger acadmeically than Columbia, there is no contest.
Thank you @evilqueen. While we loved Columbia on first visit, the academics are a deal breaker for us bc my son needs to go to a school with intellectually-similar peers and strong academics. So that helps confirm what we thought and it helps us narrow the list.
@photomom5 I don’t think so but maybe.
They do have an honors program at Columbia College Chicago, which is more challenging than the regular curriculum.
Even with the honors program I would stay with Loyola. Loyola’s reputation for acadmics is much stronger than Columbia’s.
I live in the south and know Rhodes is an outstanding liberal arts school - we know many students currently attending (including my niece!), and have a number of friends who are alums. I don’t know anything about their theatre program but the school is fantastic.